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Elliott Abrams
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Elliott Abrams is a former American diplomat, lawyer and political scientist who served in foreign policy positions for Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. Abrams was convicted of withholding information from Congress about the Iran–Contra affair while serving under Reagan and he is currently a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Abrams is a current member of the U. S, holocaust Memorial Council and teaches foreign policy at Georgetown University as well as maintaining a CFR blog called Pressure Points about US foreign policy and human rights. In February 2014, Abrams, a commissioner of the U. S, commission on International Religious Freedom, gave testimony before a House congressional committee that Christians globally are the most persecuted of the world religions. During the Reagan administration, Abrams gained notoriety for his involvement in foreign policy decisions regarding Nicaragua. During George W. Bushs first term, he served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director on the National Security Council for Near East and North African Affairs. At the start of Bushs second term, Abrams was promoted to be his Deputy National Security Advisor for Global Democracy Strategy and his appointment by Bush was controversial due to his conviction in 1991 on two misdemeanor counts of unlawfully withholding information from Congress during the Iran–Contra affair investigation. Abrams was born into a Jewish family in New York in 1948 and his father was an immigration lawyer. Abrams attended the Little Red School House in New York City, a private high school whose students at the time included the children of many of the citys notable left-wing activists and artists. He practiced law in New York in the summers for his father, from 1977 through 1979, he served as special counsel and ultimately as chief of staff for the then-new senator Daniel Moynihan. Growing dissatisfaction with President Carters foreign policy led Abrams to support Ronald Reagan in the 1980 presidential election, through Senator Moynihan, Abrams was introduced to Rachel Decter, the stepdaughter of Moynihans friend Norman Podhoretz, editor of Commentary. They were married from 1980 until her death in June 2013, the couple had three children, Jacob, Sarah, and Joseph. His nomination to Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs was unanimously approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on November 17,1981. Abrams was Reagans second choice for the position, his first nominee, during this time, Abrams clashed regularly with church groups and human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch. They accused him of covering up atrocities committed by the forces of US-backed governments, such as those in El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala. In early 1982, when reports of the El Mozote massacre of hundreds of civilians by the military in El Salvador began appearing in U. S, the massacre had come at a time when the Reagan administration was attempting to bolster the human rights image of the Salvadoran military. Abrams implied that reports of a massacre were simply FMLN propaganda, also in 1993, documentation emerged suggesting that some Reagan administration officials could have known about El Mozote and other human rights violations from the beginning. Unrepentant Reaganite Abrams claimed that Washingtons policy in El Salvador was a fabulous achievement, neither the direct aid, nor any foreign contributions, could be used to purchase weapons

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Justin Amash
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Justin A. Amash is an American attorney and Republican member of Congress. In January 2011, he serving as the U. S. Representative for Michigans 3rd congressional district, the district, based in Grand Rapids, had once been represented by former President Gerald Ford. Amash was first elected to the House in the 2010 Congressional election, at the age of 30, Amash assumed office as the second youngest sitting U. S. Representative. As of January 2016, Amash is the seventh youngest U. S. Representative and he is Chairman of the House Liberty Caucus and associated with the Tea Party movement. He was described as a diligent member of Congress and a stickler for rules who has never missed a vote in Congress, Amash reportedly missed his first vote in March 2017, after six years as a U. S. Representative. In 2016, Amash made headlines by joining the list of Republicans who opposed the GOP nominee for President and he is increasingly viewed as a leading critic opposed to Donald Trump. Born in Grand Rapids, and raised in Kentwood, Michigan and his father, Attallah, is a Palestinian business owner, whose family emigrated to the United States in 1956 through the sponsorship of a Christian pastor and his family. His mother, Mimi, is a Syrian immigrant to the United States, Amash attended Kelloggsville Christian School in Kelloggsville and graduated as class valedictorian from Grand Rapids Christian High School. He graduated from the University of Michigan magna cum laude with a B. A. in economics, Amash admires economists F. A. Hayek and Frédéric Bastiat. Amash is married and the father of three children and he belongs to the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch. After graduating from the University of Michigan, he became a consultant to his familys tool business and he worked as a corporate attorney for his familys business for a year, before being elected to the Michigan House of Representatives in 2008. Amash ran for the Michigan House of Representatives in 2008 in Michigans 72nd House District, during this time, he donated to the campaigns of Congressman Ron Paul and John McCain. In the Republican primary, he won a five candidate election with 41% of the vote, defeating opponent Ken Yonker by 723 votes, the incumbent, Glenn D. Steil, Jr. was barred from running by term limits. In the general election, Amash defeated Democrat Albert Abbasse 61%–36%, during his initial tenure in the State House, Amash sponsored five resolutions and twelve bills, but none of them passed. While in the State House, Amash began using his Twitter and Facebook pages to report his floor votes, Amash was noted for his perfect attendance record. In its October 25,2010, issue, Amash was named one of Time magazines 40 under 40 – Rising Stars of U. S. Politics, at the age of 30, Amash was the youngest federal officeholder in the United States on Times list. On August 3,2010, Amash won the five-way Republican primary for the vacated by retiring Republican Vern Ehlers with over 40% of the vote

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Kelley Armstrong
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Kelley Armstrong is a Canadian writer, primarily of fantasy novels since 2001. She has also published three fantasy novels in the Blackwell Pages Trilogy, with co-author Melissa Marr. As well, she is the author of three novels, the Nadia Stafford trilogy. She has also written several serial novellas and short stories for the Otherworld series, kelley Armstrong was born on 14 December 1968, the oldest of four siblings in a typical middle-class family in Sudbury, Ontario. After graduating with a degree in psychology from The University of Western Ontario and her first novel Bitten was sold in 1999, and it was released in 2001. Armstrong has been a writer and parent since 2002. Her novel No Humans Involved was a New York Times bestseller in the fiction category on 20 May 2007. Also, her YA novel The Awakening was a No.1 New York Times bestseller in the Childrens Chapter books category on 17 May 2009, most of her works have a mystery genre plot, with leading characters investigating some novel situation or unsolved question. In the Otherworld novels, most supernatural powers are either hereditary, the Otherworld, while it has overarching conflicts and plotlines that span multiple novels is, thus far, not an epic battle between good and evil. The novels are largely episodic with the continuing plotlines primarily involving the lives of the main characters. Her contemporary fantasy writings share genre similarities with writers Charlaine Harris, Laurell K Hamilton, stories in the Online release column may be found on one of two pages on her website. If marked as Short story, they are on her Free Online Fiction page, a short story called Disenchanted chronologically 2.5 is narrated by Tori and a very small portion in Simons view. The short story Facing Facts chronologically 3

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Gerald Baliles
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Gerald Lee Baliles was the 65th Governor of Virginia and the former director of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. Baliles served as the 65th Governor of Virginia from 1986 to 1990, a Democrat, Baliles won the 1985 Gubernatorial election with 55. 2% of the vote defeating Republican Wyatt B. He could not run for re-election, as Virginia governors are limited to non-consecutive single terms in office, however, Baliles popularity helped secure the narrow election of Lieutenant Governor Douglas Wilder in 1989. Improving Virginias transportation infrastructure and increasing its revenues was one of his signature accomplishments, another key priority was ensuring the states ability to participate and compete in world markets, and during his administration Virginia’s international trade grew substantially. A champion of education, Baliles has long emphasized the need for workers to acquire new skills and training throughout their lives. His administration increased faculty salaries, making pay for the states higher-education teachers the highest in the South, in 1989, he hosted the nations governors in Charlottesville for President George H. W. Bushs summit on education and has always been a staunch supporter of higher education. During Baliles administration, the state boasted the highest per-capita income in the South, and he appointed the first woman, Elizabeth B. Lacy, to the Virginia Supreme Court, expanded the prison system. In 2004 he served as chair of a panel to raise money for the Bay cleanup. Baliles was widely seen as having potential for a political career after his service as governor. However, Virginias United States Senate seats were held by Democrat Chuck Robb, Baliles predecessor as governor, Baliles also did not pursue the Democratic nomination for President in 1992. After leaving office, he returned to law practice as a partner in the national firm Hunton & Williams based in Richmond. He chaired the Commission to Ensure a Strong Competitive Airline Industry Commission for President Bill Clinton, in the early 1990s, Baliles served as chairman of the Public Infrastructure Subcouncil of the Competitiveness Policy Council. Allen in his capacity as the Attorney General of Virginia and he serves on the boards of the Norfolk Southern Corporation and Altria Group. He has also served as chair of PBS and throughout most of his life has been at the forefront of activities related to preserving the Chesapeake Bay. Baliles received the Harry F. Byrd Public Service Award from the Virginia Military Institute in 2006, a native of Virginia, Baliles was born on July 8,1940 in Patrick County. He became the Miller Centers fifth director in April 2006, Governor Baliles and his wife, Robin, currently reside in Charlottesville, Virginia. He has two children, Laura and Jonathan, with his first wife, Jeannie Baliles, Jon Baliles was elected to the Richmond City Council in 2012

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Sheila Abdus-Salaam
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Sheila Abdus-Salaam is a judge on the New York Court of Appeals. She is the first black woman and Muslim to be appointed to a seat on New Yorks highest court and she was born in 1952 in Washington, D. C. and attended the public schools there. She is a 1974 graduate of Barnard College and a 1977 graduate of Columbia Law School and she subsequently served on the New York City Civil Court from 1992 to 1993. She was a New York Supreme Court Justice, from 1993 to 2009 and she was designated as a Justice for the Appellate Division, First Judicial Department in 2009 by Governor David Paterson. She was an Associate Justice of the New York Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, First Judicial Department from 2009 until her elevation in 2013. She was nominated by New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo on April 5,2013 to fill the vacancy on the New York Court of Appeals created by the death of Judge Theodore T. Jones. She was confirmed without opposition by a vote held on May 6,2013. Hon. Sheila Abdus-Salaam at NY Court System

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Jonathan H. Adler
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Jonathan H. Adler is an American legal commentator and law professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Adler was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and he graduated from Friends Central School before attending Yale University, where he majored in History, graduating magna cum laude in May 1991 with distinction in History. After working several years at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Adler attended law school at the George Mason University School of Law and he attended at night while continuing to work at CEI. He was the Articles Editor for the George Mason Law Review from 1998-1999 and he graduated summa cum laude in May 2000 as the class valedictorian. Adler is currently a professor at Case Western Reserve University s School of Law, teaches courses in environmental, regulatory. He is Director of the law schools Center for Business Law & Regulation, in 2011, Adler was named the inaugural holder of the Johan Verheij Memorial Professorship at CWRU. Adler is an editor to National Review Online and a regular contributor to “The Volokh Conspiracy. He blogged anonymously under the pseudonym Juan Non-Volokh at The Volokh Conspiracy until May 1,2006, in 2007, the Case Western Reserve University Law Alumni Association awarded Adler their annual Distinguished Teacher Award. Adler formerly clerked for the Honorable David B, sentelle on the U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Adler supported former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson in the 2008 presidential election, in 2012, Adler headed a screening committee appointed by Ohio governor John Kasich to assist him in selecting an appointee to fill an open seat on the Ohio Supreme Court. In 2001, Adler moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where he met his wife and he currently lives in Ohio, with his wife and two daughters. Digital Commons Eyes on a Climate Prize, Rewarding Energy Innovation to Achieve Climate Stabilization,35 Harvard Environmental Law Review 1, scholarly Commons The Rest Is Silence, Chevron Deference, Agency Jurisdiction, and Statutory Silences,2009 University of Illinois Law Review 101. Scholarly Commons Money or Nothing, The Adverse Environmental Consequences of Uncompensated Land-Use Controls,49 Boston College Law Review 301, scholarly Commons When Is Two a Crowd, The Impact of Federal Action on State Environmental Regulation,31 Harvard Environmental Law Review 67. The Green Costs of Kelo, Economic Development Takings and Environmental Protection,84 Washington University Law Review, scholarly Commons Reckoning with Rapanos, Revisiting “Waters of the United States” and the Limits of Federal Wetland Regulation,14 Missouri Environmental Law & Policy Review 1. Scholarly Commons Back to the Future of Conservation, Changing Perceptions of Property Rights & Environmental Protection,1 NYU Journal of Law & Liberty 987, scholarly Commons Jurisdictional Mismatch in Environmental Federalism,14 NYU Environmental Law Journal 130. Assessing a Supreme Drug Overdose,9 Lewis & Clark Law Review 751, scholarly Commons Judicial Federalism and the Future of Federal Environmental Regulation,90 Iowa Law Review 377. Scholarly Commons Conservation through Collusion, Antitrust as an Obstacle to Marine Resource Conservation,61 Washington, scholarly Commons Fables of the Cuyahoga, Reconstructing a History of Environmental Protection,14 Fordham Environmental Law Journal 89. Scholarly Commons Legal Obstacles to Private Ordering in Marine Fisheries,8 Roger Williams University Law Review 9, scholarly Commons Let 50 Flowers Bloom, Transforming the States into Laboratories of Environmental Policy,31 Environmental Law Reporter 11284

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Luis A. Aguilar
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Luis A. Aguilar is an American lawyer and former U. S. government official. He was the Democratic commissioner of the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission from July 31,2008, until June 2015. He had been appointed by U. S. President George W. Bush on March 31,2008, Aguilar was born in Cuba and emigrated to the United States in the 1960s. He is a graduate of the University of Georgia School of Law and he had earlier earned a bachelors degree from Georgia Southern University. Prior to his appointment as an SEC commissioner, Aguilar was a partner with the law firm of McKenna Long & Aldridge. He also was Invescos managing director for Latin America in the late 1990s and his career also includes tenure as a partner at several national law firms and as an attorney at SEC. Aguilars term at the SEC expired in June 2015 and he has been active in numerous civic and business associations. The LAA offers employment, immigration, youth, family, housing, in recent years, the LAA has provided services to over 70,000 Hispanics annually. He has served on boards, including the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Girl Scouts Council of Northwest Georgia. Georgia Hispanic Bar Association, United States Fund for UNICEF Southeast Regional Chapter and he has been active with national organizations, including Hispanic National Bar Association. In 2002, Aguilar was co-chair of the annual convention and also served as regional president, chair of its financial committee. In addition, he served as the president of the Hispanic National Bar Foundation, Aguilar serves as sponsor of the SECs Hispanic Employment Committee and the African American Council. He has written articles over the years. Aguilar was listed in the 2005,2006,2007 and 2008 editions of the Best Lawyers in America and he was also named one of Georgias Super Lawyers 2004,2005,2006 and 2008 as published in Atlanta magazine and Georgia Super Lawyers Magazine. Aguilar was named by Hispanic Business magazine in 2006 as one of the 100 Influential Hispanics in the United States, additionally, he was named Member of the Year in 2005 and the Atlanta Hispanic Businessman of the Year in 1994 by the Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. He received the MALDEFs Excellence in Leadership Award in April 2005 and he was also named the 2005 Latino Attorney of the Year by the Hispanic National Bar Association. In January 2007, Aguilar received the Justice Robert Benham Award for Community Service by the Chief Justices Commission on Professionalism of the Supreme Court of Georgia and he is married to Denise Traylor Aguilar who hails from Roanoke, Alabama. This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Government document SEC Biography, Commissioner Luis A. Aguilar

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Susan Allen
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Susan Allen is a Minnesota politician and member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, she represents District 62B and she is the first Native American woman to serve in the Minnesota Legislature and the first openly lesbian Native American to win election to a state legislature. The daughter of an Episcopal priest, Allen graduated from Augsburg College in Minneapolis in 1992 and she later earned a J. D. from the University of New Mexico Law School and an LL. M. from William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul. She became an attorney in 1997 and a partner of her law firm in 2004. Allen is one of three gay members, alongside Representatives Karen Clark and Erin Maye Quade and Senator Scott Dibble. When state representative Jeff Hayden was elected to the Minnesota Senate in October 2011, Allen was one of four DFLers to put themselves forward for the seat and, at the DFL nominating convention held on November 12, she received the partys endorsement on the third ballot. She nevertheless faced an election on December 6, facing three opponents, two of whom had suspended their campaigns after losing at the convention. Allen won the nomination handily, taking over 82% of the vote in the primary, in the general election held on January 10,2012, she faced only one opponent, who ran under the Respect label, beating him 56–43%. She was re-elected in the 2012 general election, as an attorney, Allen specializes in serving Indian tribes, helping them draft tribal laws in a wide range of areas. She is Lakota and a member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, Susan Allen at Minnesota Legislators Past & Present Rep. Susan Allen official Minnesota House of Representatives website Rep. Susan Allen official campaign website